ABSTRACT
This chapter describes what the clinical law faculty at one institution, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, has done to enhance its curriculum with an experimental seminar: Professional Responsibility and Practice: The Rules and Reality. The course was developed as part of a broader initiative, which was born out of a partnership between the law school and the Fetzer Institute, launched in 2008 to focus on “Leadership, Ethics and Democracy-Building” (LEAD Initiative). The LEAD Initiative is designed to help law students realize their leadership potential, build good ethical and moral judgment, develop crosscultural competence, and discover how they can use law to reinforce democracy, achieve justice, and engage in fulfilling careers.1 The curricular innovations that comprise the LEAD Initiative serve as one way the school of law is working to respond to the calls for reform in legal education that the Carnegie Report on Legal Education articulated so powerfully.
